FORT LEE, N.J. – Feb. 16, 2012 – Hot
off the heels of their Valentine’s Day in-game festivities,
kid-friendly virtual world Fantage.com (Fantage) is ringing in the
start of spring with five days of masquerade fun. Beginning late
tomorrow afternoon and ending on Wednesday, Feb. 22, users can
enjoy freshly decorated worlds, Limited Items, mini-games and
prizes in honor of Mardi Gras. Interested users can register to try
Fantage for free at
www.fantage.com.

The Great Fantage Masquerade festivities include:

Environments Fit for a King: Fantage gets decked out with
masquerade masks, costumes and multi-color banners for the
occasion.

Masquerade Parade: Several floats move through Carnival every
15 minutes. Players can click on various parts of the floats to
earn stars.

Guess Who?: Non-playable characters (NPC) take cover under
limited-edition costumes while players are tasked with stringing
together clues to unveil the NPCs’ true identity.

Royal Rendezvous: Players can speak to the king and queen of
the Masquerade to gain a special, but temporary costume. A new
costume is featured every day of the event, so users are encouraged
to bid hello to their majesties daily.

Confetti Cannon: Players can click on the confetti launcher to
release a colorful effect for a truly magnificent masquerade
atmosphere.

Fantage is a next-generation virtual world and community site
for kids, tweens and teens. Featuring beautiful never-before-seen
environments, Fantage’s cute avatars surf around on hover
boards in a cool world. Consisting of fourteen towns –
including Pet Town, Mt. Fantage, Wizard’s Domain and Fantage
School – Fantage features rewarding single and multiplayer
mini-games, multi-user safe chat for conversations with friends and
nearly endless character customization options, allowing for a
truly unique experience. Players can earn and manage stars away
from the computer too, through Fantage’s new mobile
applications for iOS and Android.

Fantage has grown to more than 16 million users and is the
recipient of many awards, including the Editor’s Choice Award
from Children’s Technology Review for excellence in
children’s interactive media and a Mom’s Choice
Award®.

For more information or to join one of the fastest-growing
virtual world for kids, tweens and teens, please visit:
http://fantage.com/. Review accounts are
available for qualified press.

About Fantage

Founded in 2007 and launched the following year, Fantage.com is
a next-generation destination site for children. Fantage games and
adventures entertain and delight children, and promote positive
social interaction in an engaging, exciting, safe environment that
both kids and parents love. Fantage also provides an
age-appropriate, safe social networking experience within a fun
virtual world. The company is dedicated to the safety of Fantage
members, and has a highly sophisticated, three-tier safety system
providing the greatest level of protection of any community site
for children on the web. Fantage also is extending its in-game
experience by moving to the mobile game platform, offering
mini-game favorites such as Fantage Bullseye and FishFish: Deep
Blue.

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